Watch and listen to our year-2 CLIL students describing themselves, talking about their future and giving interesting opinions about what CLIL has meant for them these two years. It is not about saying goodbye! It is about saying ‘I love you’ and ‘Good Luck!’. I am NOT going to forget you!

How to create a news-reading project?. In groups, you will film a video in which you will appear as newsreaders reading different pieces of news. The main elements of this cross-curricular project will be: Como crear un telexornal en vídeo? En grupos, teredes que gravar un vídeo no que apareceredes como telexornalistas dando as novas. Os elementos proncipais deste proxecto interdisciplinar serán:Continue Reading

The final group project this year will take you a lot of time and work, but it will be worth it. It is going to be about food, music, historical costumes, acting, filming…all of it framed by a historical perpective. In groups, you will film a video in which you (dressed with historical costumes) will appear cooking a history-related recipe as well as giving step-by-step instructions for making that dish and commenting on its relationship to a particular historical period. The main elements of this cross-curricular project will be:

Yesterday we held a farewell event for Sam, our language assistant. He has become an important part of our school life in Negreira and we are sure he will become a wonderful teacher of Spanish in England. That is why saying goodbye to him got us very emotional and sad, after sharing a never-to-forget whole year of experiences with him. It was funny though to see Inés Tuñas, Aroa Peillet, Alberto Estévez and Álvaro Alvite lip-synching to Let it Be, by the Beatles (Sam’s favourite band of all time). Clara Cristela, our CLIL teacher, and me, followed by the students José Ramón Cisneros (3ESO) and Sara Riveiro (1BAC) dedicated some moving words to Sam and then Sam read a farewell letter in his already perfect Spanish. This year our English has definitely turned much better, as well as his Spanish (and even his Galician!). See you soon, Sam!

And then came the rain…After the transport thing got sorted out, water started falling from the sky, but nothing could stop us from going on with the things planned. Our scheduled visit to the IES Cañada Blanch in Portobello Road took place thanks again to Xaime Varela, as lovely as usual (see his blog here: http://galegoenlondres.blogspot.co.uk). Our students were talking to Xaime’s British and Spanish students there. Then, Antía Suárez and Sara Riveiro gave a wonderful bilingual presentation about Negreira and our IES Xulián Magariños, which had been prepared by all our students.

The truth is that I was not very optimistic about the London Tube 48-hour strike and, in fact, it was rather difficult for us to move around the city. We could not even make it to SÉS gig…We had a wonderful and superlong walk, though (i.e. we walked and walked and walked, and had a lot of fun): our sightseeing included Kensington, Hyde Park, Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square and we ended up seeing Big Ben in Westminster and the magnificent Thames.